Why? Its obvious that they are trying to prevent this league from becoming like the EPL where every big team fields like one English player a game, therefore leaving scraps for the national team. This system demands the production of young, talented Russian kids to develop, not just to create a foreign team with oil money. As you can see, the English national team has long struggled in European competitions, especially after the EPL's golden years, because it just doesn't produce enough talented English footballers anymore. I believe in this system, and that it should be implemented into every league in the world. Now, the fact that the Russian Prem and Russian team are in Euro competition has nothing to do with this system, and that you would even ask that obviously shows you do not understand where Barcelona's dominance came from, so i'll tell you, from its "cantera". (And you consider yourself a fan?) This system tries to avoid every team in Russia becoming a Real Madrid is all. What was Spain's Euro winning midfield if not Barcelona's?